Embedding hypermedia into information systems

This paper discusses the integration of hypermedia as a value-added support functionality into computer-based information systems. These include a large base of scientific and business applications, which people use primarily for their underlying analytic functionality. Hypermedia features supplement these applications, providing access to the application's primary activities, and support for the understanding of information and communication between team members. This paper presents a topography for the emerging hypermedia functionality research in general. It also illustrates one branch of this research with an example: an information system level functionality within a software system with the emphasis on hand-made hyperlinks and annotations.